With the break-up of bands such as Big Star and The Raspberries, by the mid-70s power pop looked to be heading for extinction, as prog rock and disco filled the airwaves and record racks worldwide.

Power pop blossomed in the 70s. Bands combined the melodicism of 60s pop with the harder rock sounds that were coming into vogue. That genre faded in popularity a bit as the 80s dawned. But it never ...

Doggone it, where’s an American independent power-pop band when you need one? Japan, naturally. When time came to interview the members of the band Blackpool Lights, the Tucson Weekly had a window of ...

Beloved NYC power-pop band the dB's bring their first tour in 12 years to San Francisco Thursday, with the quartet's original line-up playing songs from its first two albums at the Chapel. While ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Euclid Records owner Joe Schwab remembers the first time he stumbled upon a 1986 cassette from the Painkillers, a local power-pop ...

Parisian punky power-pop band Alvilda released their debut album, C’est Déjà L’heure (“It’s Already Time”), last fall via Static Shock. It’s a lot of fun, full of harmonies, breathless rhythms and ...

With the third song on the third side of his landmark third solo album, 1972’s Something/Anything?, Todd Rundgren planted a ...

While The Backstreet Boys are the talk of pop culture today with their all-white shows at the Las Vegas Spheres, the band broke in a major way some three decades ago. In the 90s, the Backstreet Boys ...